L&L Special Furnace Co. Inc. shipped a floor-standing, high-temperature box furnace to a global supplier of piezo ceramics used in the military, aerospace and medical industries. The furnace, which has an effective work zone measuring 18 inches wide x 18 inches high x 36 inches deep, has a double-pivot horizontal door. It is used for processing glass products to 2500°F (1371°C). This process causes lead to outgas. As a result, the furnace interior is constructed of high-alumina refractory with less silica than normal linings, which helps delay the corrosive reaction between the silica present in the refractory and the lead outgassing at elevated temperatures.

German companies PEER Energy GmbH and Schwing Technologies GmbH signed a long-term cooperation agreement to develop and market fluidized-bed technology for the heat treatment of metal components. The partnership between the two companies focuses on combining quenching processes with fluidized-bed technology. It includes research results and developments of heat-transfer rates. The application focus is on faster and more uniform heating and cooling processes for metal parts, with the aim of conserving resources and further reducing unit costs.

Industrial Heating is hosting three free webinars over the next three weeks, including two in the next couple of days. “Users of Industrial Hydrogen Look Beyond Delivered for Security of Supply” will be held tomorrow, November 30, at 11:00 a.m. (EST). “How to Help Your Customers Decide to Reshore” will be held Thursday, December 2, at 2:00 p.m. (EST), and “Grinding and Polishing of Sample Materials for Microstructural Analysis and Hardness Testing” will be held Tuesday, December 14, at 2:00 p.m. (EST). Registration for these webinars is free.

Nitrex Metal received an order from Elvial S.A., an aluminum extrusion company in Greece for a retort furnace. The furnace, which was installed and started up in July 2021, will help Elvial increase production of building materials. The NX-815 E operates with NX Connect software and uses NITREG-C (nitrocarburizing) and NITREG (gas nitriding) technologies for die extrusion. The machine is equipped with air conditioning, an exhaust gas neutralizer and 1,653 pounds (750 kg) of racking made from Inconel 600. The order also included a lifting device. All processes for this furnace are compliant to AMS 2759/10.

SECO/VACUUM received an order for two vacuum tempering furnaces from an international cutting-tool manufacturer. The furnaces will augment the company’s capacity, which currently includes four vacuum tempering furnaces of the same configuration at its North Carolina manufacturing facility. The two horizontal, front-loading Vector furnaces are designed with an all-metal hot zone for clean vacuum processing. As with the earlier furnaces, the new furnaces include convection fans and a pressurized gas quench for rapid cooling. 

Nitrex Metal Inc. (Nitrex) has been selected for the “Global Thought Leaders” series broadcast on CBS News. The feature showcases the company as an industry innovator whose surface-treatment solutions enhance the metallurgical properties of components increasing their durability, wear and corrosion resistance while contributing to a more sustainable future. Nitrex’s nitriding process, vacuum furnaces, services centers, proprietary software and controls make the company a fully integrated solutions provider. 

Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems commissioned an integral-quench furnace line to a supplier of specialty nut and bolt assemblies in the eastern United States. The furnace line includes an integral-quench furnace, parts washer, temper and associated material handling and load storage. The system is designed to process loads measuring 24 inches wide x 24 inches long x 20 inches high and weighing up to 1,500 pounds. It includes custom-designed material handing to eliminate the need for expensive cast base trays. 

The self-scoring Lubriscore system grants a number of stars to products showing a virtuous profile on lifecycle criteria: raw materials and design/production/transport/use/end of life.

The lab-scale rotary furnace allows producers of advanced materials to optimize their process parameters on a small scale to ensure capability and quality requirements are achieved prior to investment in production-scale thermal-processing equipment.

Registration for IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating Online Learning Course is now open. Scheduled to begin January 17, 2022, the six-week class will run through February 27. The flexible online format and interactive forums are just some of the benefits of this class. The curriculum includes the basics of heat transfer, fuels and combustion, energy use, furnace design, refractories, automatic control, and atmospheres as applied to industrial process heating. Weekly coursework, quizzes and a final-exam project are administered to guide students on their progress and evaluate their knowledge of the material.